Patent of Smartphone Attachable Lens-Style Camera

As smartphone market grows, development of peripheral devices technologies is rapid as well. 

One of the representative technology is ‘Smartphone Attachable Lens-Style Camera’,

 and SONY seems to be a leading player with its own camcorder and camera technologies.

 

QX series @sony.co.kr

However, despite of its high quality, price is quite high as well, it makes customers definitely hesitate before they press the ‘purchase’ button. Recently, ‘Altek(altek.com.tw)’, 

digital camera ODM company released new product called ‘Cubic’, 

and it makes customer’s heart flutter again with much less burden in terms of price.

Cubic@ Altek.com.tw.cubic

As you can see from the above picture, it is one of the smallest and lightest products, 

also did not forget to have great functions including 13,000,000 pixels, full HD function, and etc. 

Surprisingly, it costs no more than 100 USD.

With such a rapid development, smartphone camera might overtake digital camera someday. 

Let’s take a look of related patent.

Title of the most recent patent on Smartphone Attachable Lent-style camera disclosed in USPTO is 

“Image Modifying Assembly for Smart Devices”, Assignee name is ‘Richard Brough’, 

and disclosed on December 12, 2013. Patent number is 2013-0331148.

Representative drawing of above patent @wipsglobal.com

This patent is about assembly for smart devices such as lens-style camera or smartphones, 

and its components include adapter, case, clamping portion, and etc. 

Core part of this patent seems to be locking device called ‘clamping’.

Patent is a direct indicator which helps us observe current development stage of cutting edge technology, WIPS will keep introducing interesting technology and patents to you through our blog. 

What kind of new technologies will surprise us in the future, let’s wait and see!